Donald Hopgood says he had ‘misguided’ sense of obligation to Gregory Robert Knight who went on to sexually abuse more children in Queensland and Northern TerritoryA former South Australian deputy premier has said he was “naive” to give a known paedophile teacher – who he had spared from dismissal when education minister – a personal reference that enabled him to work in Queensland and Northern Territory schools where he sexually abused more students.
Donald Hopgood told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse he had a “misguided” sense of obligation to Gregory Robert Knight – who he knew in 1978 had sexually assaulted three students – because Knight conducted a concert band in which the minister played trumpet. Related: Brisbane archbishop 'told abuse victim to ditch sinful path' of litigation, inquiry told Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com